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Several things were illuminated by firelight last week: that Gallardo was not welcome; that someone would commit a new crime to stress that; and that it is hard to write good law accommodating the popular belief that once a sexual predator, always a sexual predator...
...Gallardo's girlfriend discovered him engaged in oral sex with her 10-year-old daughter; but she declined to file charges, and the case was dropped. Then in 1990, deputies responding to another complaint at the house (owned by Gallardo's father) found what Snohomish County sheriff's office spokesman Elliott Woodall describes as "a lot of very disturbing material of a cult nature, a satanic nature and a pornographic nature, all oriented toward young females." They reopened the statutory-rape case involving the 10-year- old, and Gallardo pleaded guilty...
...Washington responded to a rash of gruesome sex crimes with the bold and much debated Community Protection Act, addressing sexually violent predators. Its most controversial provision -- that at the moment of their release, habitual, violent sexual offenders may be reincarcerated indefinitely for "treatment" -- did not apply to Gallardo. But another clause permits local authorities to warn of a former "predator's" arrival in town...
...Maria Gallardo believes the scales have been tipped enough against her younger brother. Beyond maintaining that he was "railroaded" into his 1991 guilty plea, she says of his violent drawings and writings, "He's plagued by nightmares. I was too, for a long time. He would write down the dream and how he felt during it, to see where this madness was coming from." It was self- therapy, she says; only the police "took it upon themselves to believe that they were things he wanted to do, or had done and just hadn't been caught." In that way, "they...
...joined a brother in New Mexico. The neighbors there know everything, thanks to the media. But should Joe move again, only some 20 states require former sex felons to register, and few governments announce their presence. Gallardo could then, for better or worse, join a community where no one will be aware of his past...